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What are your favorite Italian wine regions?

We all have favorite wines, but what about regions? Are there any specific Italian regions that excite your palate each and every time? Tuscany is home to multiple famed wine regions, centrally located in a perfect breeding ground for the most interesting grapes and complex tastes. Cheers!

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Piemonte is home to some delicious varietals including Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Barbera, Barolo, Barbaresco, Muscato & Asti Spumanti. If you'd like to read about some of the delicious Italian wines I recently tasted please check out my blog entry on Golden Glass which was a tasting of italian wines in San Francisco http://vinogger.com/wordpress

Piemonte and Toscana are my top two, with the Veneto probably coming in third. Others I also like include Campania, the Alto Adige and Sicilia. Very good wines in all of them--all very different by varietal, style, what have you--and some of the world's greatest wines from some.

Here on Snooth, the Piedmont may get the most exposure, with Tuscany running second. The other areas I mention get very little attention, though. Perhaps the powers that be might consider articles on the beautiful, world-class whites of the Alto Adige, the reds and wihites of Campania, Sicily and the Veneto? Both overviews and a lot of written up bottle tastings?

Tuscany and Piedmonte are my two favorites. Then the Alto Adige, Sicily and Veneto. If you pressed me to choose just one it would be very difficult but I suppose it would have to be beloved Tuscany. There is so much wonderful wine to be had all over Italy it's really hard to go wrong. Most of the time when I'm there I'm drinking the local wines that don't ever make it to the world market and they are superb.

I'll revise my order a little to push the Alto Adige ahead of the Veneto by a nose in third place, now that I think back on all the great white bottles (and even some pinot noir) that I've had. Hard call, but that Tyrolian magic wins out over Amarone.....

Greg, you really should also do regional coverage for the larger Snooth populace. Personally, I've had very little from Trentino, for example, and don't know enough about the area.

And how about listing here your top five for each of those regions?! ;-)

If somebody is in need for help about italian classification or suggestion about were and who specially in the nord yust ask, i'm living here and it's my job...but tomorrow i'm leaving for egypt ...i'll be back in two weeks Ciao